A couple of my colleagues have written about Grover “Russ” Whitehurst’s recent paper on the importance of curriculum in improving schools. To sum it up, Whitehurst, the former director of the federal ...

Curriculum as praxis is based on critical pedagogy (so the work of Paulo Freire, which builds on the critical approaches to education put forward by the Frankfurt school). Such a curriculum would be ...

The authors of the book 'Going to University: The influence of higher education on the lives of young South Africans' are grateful for the financial support of the NRF. Financial access is extremely ...

In the landscape of K-12 education, attendance has long been viewed as a logistical issue–a checkbox to be marked, a statistic to be tracked. But what if we reimagined attendance not just as a policy ...

Danielle Kelsick can pinpoint the moment she realized she wanted to teach. At the time, Kelsick, now the chief academic officer at Environmental Charter Schools in Los Angeles County, was running a ...

A summary guide offers decision-makers practical tools for implementing the recommendations of the NASEM report ...

A retired curriculum expert who spent years working on Alberta's curriculum rewrite says she warned the government that its change in approach could spell disaster for Alberta's international test ...

The atmosphere inside the main hall of Dream Africa School in Mbalwa buzzed with an unusual energy. It was confident voices of learners leading class discussions. At the forefront, student presenters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A review of the English school curriculum is currently underway. The review’s recently released interim report makes clear that ...